Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-31
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The Shoshone ldaho) "Journai ois'
cusses the annexation scheme. Its ad.
vices from North Idaho indicate that
the sentiment Of the people of the four
counties is not unanimously in favor OF
division. They talk of creating a new
Territory to be called Columbia, out Of
the Ceur d'Alenes and the Columbia
region basin of Eastern Washington,
switch would be rich in its natural re.
sources and identical in its interests"
1t is probable that a convention Of the
people will be called to discuss the ques-
ton. The Ogden News believes there
will be a good deal of discussion over
this division and annexation business be-
fore anything definite is accomplished.
Read what the Shoshone journal" says
in the following:
In conversation with Senator vii.
liams of California, and Representative
Woodburn of Nevada, the writer was
informed that each had favored the seq
gregation of Idaho and the Nevada an
nexation scheme. Yet we found in our
visit to various points in Nevada last
week that much Of the sentiment in
Nevada was only passive on this ques.
tion and that at Reno, Carson City, the
capital, and in Virginia City, there was
an active, o~utspoken opposition arising
against Senator Stewards annexation
project. Some of this is on personal
and political grounds, and some OF it is
based upon local interests. In other
words, Carson, the capital city and its
surroundings are actively working
against it because it will certainly re-
move the capital from that section to
some point east or north of Elko, the
moment Idaho and northern Utah are
consolidated into the new State. Ogden
ia enthusiastic over the opportunity it
sees to secure the capital and that would
antagonize western and southern Nevada.
Idaho with its magnificent esource
and rapidly increasing population, al
ready much greater than Nevada, prac.
tically holds the key to the situation,
and should the rumored movement be-
come a fact, to locate a city on the south
side of Shoshone Falls, backed by a
strong combination of capital and rail-
road influences, that central point would
become one of the main factors in locat-
ing the capital city. The Elko & Idaho
Central railroad was recently incorpor-
ated to build a branch from the Central
Pacific via Shoshone Falls to the Wood
River mining region. 1t is also known
that the Denver and Rio Grande has al
ready surveyed and staked a line to the
Great Falls, and more recent rumors
favor an extension of the Chicago 4
Northwestern via this great scenic re-
sort. from the line now being surveyed
through the Logan and Bear River val.
leys to o connection with the Central
Pacific railroad. Parties who have re-
Gently examined the Z. 4 N. w. plats
and maps, in the camp of the surveying
party now working southwest down the
Bear River valley, state that the line oil
that road will pass near Logan and
thence to Corinne, Ogden and Salt Lake.
From the Bear River to Shoshone Falls
and the Snake River valley is almost a
straight line west through fertile country
and along easy grades. 1t is the shortest
line into Central Idaho. So many ele.
ments enter into the proposed project
that it is mere idle speculation at this
date-and the Ogden journal takes the
view that the whole subject should be
carefully considered before the people of
Idaho jump at a conclusion.